Week 5: Risk Evaluation and Patient Safety (Links to an external site.)

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to (a) provide examples of a potential risk concern in your organization, (b) apply basic principles of risk management and risk reporting to a healthcare risk management concern, (c) demonstrate an understanding of risk management tools by correctly choosing and using them in specific cases, (d) recognize the extent of problems in patient safety in medical care, and (e) explore the contributing factors for this adverse medical outcome.

Course Outcomes

Through this assessment, the student will demonstrate the ability to do the following.

• Analyze the effects of regulation, legislation, and accreditation on healthcare quality improvement. (CO 2)
• Use critical inquiry to evaluate the design, implementation, and outcomes of quality and safety improvement strategies. (CO 3)
• Advance knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for the continuous improvement of quality and safety in healthcare. (CO 5)
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• Assignment Criteria for the Paper1. Identify a potential risk within a healthcare organization and provide the rationale for choosing this issue.2. Discuss the risk management elements and patient safety strategies in this issue.3. Complete a literature review related to this issue.4. Discuss the risk assessment measures related to internal and external environmental factors, and mechanism.5. Discuss use of human factors, engineering, and other factors to improve patient safety.6. Use a risk theory and apply it to the patient safety issue.7. Integrate two QSEN competencies within your plan to mitigate this risk-related issue.8. The body of the scholarly paper is to be 3–5 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages.9. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition.10. Include a minimum of four references published within the past 5 years, not including your textbook. References may include scholarly websites of organizations or government agencies and must be presented using APA current edition format for electronic media.
  

  Preparing the Paper

  Category	Points	%	Description
  Introduction	20	10%	Identify a risk-related issue and provide a rationale.
  Patient safety strategies	30	10%	Discuss patient safety strategies related to this event.
  Literature review	30	15%	Complete a literature review.
  Contributing factors	30	15%	Discuss contributing factors, environmental risk assessment/internal and external factors.
  Risk theories	30	15%	Use one of the risk theories to illustrate the failure in the patient safety program.
  QSEN	30	15%	Discuss two QSEN competencies used to mitigate a risk-related issue.
  Conclusion	20	5%	Provide summary and concluding statements.
  APA style	10	5%	Text, title page, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA current edition format.
  Scholarly references	10	5%	Paper is 3–5 pages in length, excluding the cover and reference pages. References include a minimum of 4 scholarly references, excluding the course text.
  Grammar and spelling	10	5%	Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work.